Determination by near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) bloodmeal size.
A method is described for using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to quantify the amount of blood present in mosquitoes without killing insect. NIRS is a nonconsumptive, instrumental method for fast, accurate, and precise evaluation of chemical composition of material with little or no preparation. The NIRS method accurately predicted bloodmeal size and bloodmeal disappearance in Aedes aegypti (L.) and Ae. sierrensis (Ludlow) mosquitoes.
Hall
M H
MH
Department of Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow 83843.
Dutro
S M
SM
Klowden
M J
MJ
D000330:Aedes / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001769:Blood; D004435:Eating; D005260:Female; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared